Hurts.
 
It hurts.
 
Someone help me.
 
Anyone...
 
Sometimes when the pain arrived, he could not think at all, but although it subsided, he still could not think clearly. He knew he should protect the King. He's the last of the Guardian after all. But where is he? Where is my King? Where am I? Why does it hurt so much??
He prayed that he could regain his consciousness. Someone's been controlling him. He's been made to kill people.
He knew that the last shred of his mental defense was dwindling fast, and when it happened, he would be the perfect killing machine.
He had to leave. He had to protect the King.

-----

Morning came, and when Xiao Zhan turned to Yibo's side of the bed to give him a kiss, he's already gone and the bed's cold. He looked at the clock. 9 a.m. He wondered where the gremlin went so early since he usually got up at 11.
He rose from the bed, and went outside.
"Morning Xiao Zhan, breakfast?" Xingchen and Fei are preparing a full  english breakfast.
"Mmm, do you have some of my favorite shitty unicorn drinks? I'll wait for Yibo for breakfast. Where is he by the way? He's up kinda early and it's suspicious."
"Papabo's with Xue Yang and the twins at the drawing room."
"What are they doing?" He kissed Fei.
"That, you have to see for yourself." Xingchen giggling together with Fei. "And yes I have your shitty sugar overload drinks, I'm going to make some for you."
Xiao Zhan nodded thanks and walked to the drawing room. He finds them busy writing and drawing something. He sneaked over quietly, and found out that they're making some kind of...
"Project XZ? What's that?"
The four of them jumped simultaneously.
"Zhan ge! You scared us!!"
"Yeah papazhan you scared us!"
Now he's very suspicious because Yibo and Xue Yang were like cats and dogs, but today they looked...friendly.
They looked at each other, and finally Yibo broke.
"Alright alright, you chicken shit, Xue Yang, we made a plan to test your capabilities, Zhan ge! We named it Project XZ, from your name. Xiao Zhan."
"Yes I'm aware, and what are you supposed to do with this project?"
"We...test you?"
"And how do you propose we do that?" 
"We have no idea." They're grinning widely.
Xiao Zhan got a sudden mini heart attack, seeing his beloved boyfriend and twins smiled so brightly, even Xue Yang gave a hint of a half smile.
"You guys are really something. Why don't we have breakfast first and we'll discuss it with Song Lan? If you want to test me, I want you to train with Song Lan, baobei."
"Oohh, I can't wait to see Song Lan obliterates you." Xue Yang's gleefully jumping up and down, obviously excited.

-----

Obviously, Song Lan did not agree to train a mere human. He said he didn't want to 'accidentally' kill him.
Right, as if whatever he did was ever accidental. He's in full control of his body, and there's nothing spelled accidental in his efficient movement.
But after begging, and threatening, and screaming and crying (the twins), he gave up, and finally agreed to do some basic training to Yibo, in exchange for not talking to him ever again.
Yibo can live with that. He's even felt kinda excited.
They started to train a few hours after breakfast. Surprisingly, Yibo can hold his ground, although he felt like dying, but he held his ground, earning appreciative glances from his boyfriend (wet tshirt), and grumbling from Song Lan. Even Xue Yang was surprised to see the human was quite good.
"Not bad, not bad at all" he mumbled to himself, growing some respect for the human that he thought was useless and Xiao Zhan only liked him because he's pretty. And sassy. Oh well, he liked him enough to want to banter with him all the time.
"He's really good actually, the first human to stand after 30 minutes sparring with Song Lan." Xingchen was also surprised.
"He's not just a pretty boy, you do know that right?" Xiao Zhan smiled widely, proud of his boyfriend. 

-----

"Zhan ge, I've been meaning to ask," Yibo sat on the floor, drenched in sweat, "whose house is this? Why don't you come back to your place?"
"Why, Yibo, this is actually my mother's house. Her father, my grandfather, gave this house to her as a wedding present. I used to live here when I was a boy. Why are you asking?"
"Zhan ge! You never said that this is your house!" His eyes gleaming.
"You never asked? Why?"
"If this was your mother's house, that means that your father used to live here right? And what a man, well, alien, does when he lives far away from his home planet? He would at some point miss it, right? And what would he do? He would write, maybe a diary? Do you remember where your father spent his time? His office? Secret room? Batcave? We could find something there, some notes maybe? To know more about your heritage?"
"That is a good idea! I will ask Xingchen to do his things." Xiao Zhan stood up quickly, almost stepping on Yibo.
"What things?"

Xingchen is a nephilim.
Nephilim is a love child between an angel and human. In Xingchen's case, the angel responsible was a seraphim. Seraphim is the highest level in angel's hierarchy, but instead of fighting, they're the ones that sing to God.
And singing is what Xingchen does best.
 
"You want me to do what again?"
"Just do your voice thing, you know, the one that the bats did, screaming without sound to find the location of their food? Prey?"
"... that's the most absurd thing I've ever heard coming out from your mouth, Xue Yang."
"Yeah, Xue Yang, not helping." chimed Yibo
"Shut up you!"
Xiao Zhan bit his lips, tried to hold his amusement, hearing Xue Yang explain the bat sonar thing.
Xingchen sighed. "Yes, I know what you mean, I'm just amazed you're able to survive this long in the world, Xue Yang."
Song Lan snorted.
"It's called echolocation and yes I will do it if you guys stop crowding me like, now."
They're all moving further from Xingchen in a respective distance. 
Xingchen stood straight, closed his eyes, and hummed. 
They all instantly felt the low vibration in their gut, spŕeading to their whole body, giving them a sense of warmth. After a few minutes of humming, he stopped.
"I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but there's an empty gap behind the library. Not big, only about 2 by 2 metres. But I can't see the access door anywhere."
"Don't worry Xingchen, thanks for your help!"

They all break into running to the library on the south wing. Yes, the house was THAT huge it has wings. Of course Xiao Zhan is not that eager to find out more about his alien heritage. What if his father hid a terrible secret? Or worse, what if HE was the secret his father's trying to hide? After all, he never once told him anything about his alien side of the family. He also doubted if his mother knew about all this. 
He walked slowly, thinking, and when he reached the library, he heard scuffles inside, and he bet that his boyfriend and the God of Mischief were at it again. He sighed loudly and entered.
Only to find that the two gremlins were actually standing head to head, on the far corner of the book case, and trying to pull something together.
"Nice to see finally you guys can be civil once in a while."
"Zhan ge, come here, help us find some kind of trigger to open it. You see this? It's scuff marks on the floor, so it must be moving at some point."
"Nice job, Watson!"
"No, YOU Watson!"
"Kids, timeout, the adult needs to think."
Xiao Zhan walked to the bookcase and looked at the mark on the floor, and the bookcase.
"There seems to be some kind of mechanism here, try to find something that's out of place, kids..." he walked over to the threshold between the big bookcase, touching the books tenderly, "and please don't break anything." He saw the books were arranged by the author, then titles. He moved his fingers on the titles, when he stopped at one of the books.
"The Little Prince."
It's an ordinary book, not even a first edition. But what caught his eyes was that the book's not supposed to be here, in this section. It was supposed to be in the children's section. He knew it well because it was his favorite book growing up. Too bad he hasn't got a chance to read it to his kids. He pulled it, when he felt something's snagged behind in a click, then the bookcase was moving forward.
"Hooo, now it's clear who's Sherlock, you dumbass!"
Xiao Zhan ignored them, as he watched the bookcase slowly revealed an alcove behind. It's dark, and musty, and small, only enough for a small table and a chair, but full with a lot of papers. He walked inside and found the light switch. The light flickered open, and he saw that there's indeed a lot of papers, on the desk, on the floor, and a whiteboard on the wall. All's full with strange characters. The his gaze stopped at the desk. There is some kind of journal there. 
He walked over and touched the book lightly, afraid he would destroy the precious thing.
"Open it, Zhan ge!"
He opened it hesitantly, curious but also afraid. But when his eyes hit the first page...
"What the hell?"
The journal is empty. It looked old, and worn, and obviously used at some point. There's also some kind of yellowing in parts, but it's empty.
"Try to hold it over the candle Zhan ge, isn't that what they did in the movie?" Yibo's trying to be helping.
"Good idea, would you get me a lighted candle please?"
Both of them came back soon with a few candles and gaslighter.
Xiao Zhan held the book over the candle, but he saw that nothing's happened. He waited for a few more minutes, and flipped the book, but still nothing happened.
"Why didn't it work? Should we think about other methods?"
At exactly that time, they heard the alarm from the gate's sounded.
Xiao Zhan set the book aside, and he walked to the desk in the middle of the library and flipped a switch. The whole wall in front of the desk's turning around reveals very high tech monitors, lots of them, and CCTV cameras.
"Song Lan's checking the perimeter, he should be capable of handling the breach alone." said Xue Yang, pointing to a black blur in the corner of the cctv.

-----

Song Lan is indifferent.
He doesn't really care about anything at all, really. Except Xingchen.
He knew that Xingchen is a very pure being despite being half seraphim and half filthy human. After all, he is also half human himself. And he loathed his father, the angel part of himself. It comes in handy though, in protecting the one he cares about, and he cares a lot about Xingchen. He knows he's not worthy of him, but as long as he can be near him, he will take what he could get. As long as Xingchen is happy. And it seems like he's the happiest when he's with the babies. So, he will protect them all. At all costs.

Song Lan moved stealthily to the gate, where the alarm sounded. He jumped to the wall to do the recon, only to find...
"Is that Yanli jiejie? And Jinling, Jingyi, Yuan, Zizhen, and Nie Huaisang?" Yibo tried to squint at the monitor, to look at the figures behind the wheel of a big SUV. "Is this some kind of social call that we don't know about, Zhan ge?"
Xiao Zhan rubbed his temple. The universe seems to conspire against him, when he needs peace and quiet.
"You want me to get rid of them?" Xue Yang pointed at the monitor.
"NO! Jesus, Xue Yang, it's my sister and my nephews, and Huaisang." He sighed. "Just, let them in, don't forget to tell Song Lan to stand down."
"Jie! Why don't you tell me that you're going to come? I could prepare food from Wang Han you know?" Xiao Zhan hugs Yanli tight. He missed her.
"Why don't YOU tell me that you're back in town? In this house of all places! I have to find out from Huaisang, who found out from Momo, who found out from Xichen! And you dare to say you love me!" She pinched Xiao Zhan's hip.
"Ow ow jie, I'm sorry, I've been meaning to call you next week, I'm still in the middle of something important here."
"Seriously, Zhanzhan," her eyes softened as she touched Xiao Zhan's cheek. "How are you? You looked tired and so skinny, and I came here to see my new nephew and niece! You have twins and didn't say anything to us? Did you know how Yibo's heart break and he's...."
"Yanli jie, it's all in the past, Zhan ge's here now, and it's all that matters." Yibo cut her sentence and hugged her. "Now let me bring these kids to play with the twins! I bet you guys also missed Fei right?" He took the kids to find Fei and the twins.
"I brought you a lot of pork ribs and lotus roots soup, I know you love it, and apparently you need it. You need to put on more weight, Zhanzhan."
"I know jie, it's just the stress, but I'm okay. So how are you, Huaisang? I really appreciated you come here to see me and the kids, or perhaps you want to gather some info?" 
"Zhan-xiong, I'm really flattered by how you praise me, but no, I came here purely as a friend, to find out how you've been doing since 5 years ago. You know, we actually have a mutual friend in the same field that you dabbled now, maybe we should...meet and talk about it next time? I have some info that surely will interest you...and your friends." Nie Huaisang hid his lower half of his face behind his fans, and his eyes unreadable. Xiao Zhan knows that Nie Huaisang is the best fixer in the world. And as a fixer, he tends to stumble into a lot of confidential information. So when he said he wanted to meet a mutual friend, he definitely wouldn't miss it.
"Just let me know the time and place, and I'll be there. By the way, how's Mingjue and Qing? They okay?"
"They wanted to come too but some emergency happened at dage's work place, so he bailed at the last second, but since Yuan and Zizhen wanted to meet Fei, I brought them here."
Xiao Zhan nods.
"So, let's go eat the soup, I'm starving! You should try Xingchen's cooking, it's very delicious!"

With 7 kids at the table, the lunch can be considered a success, only a few accidents, and by accidents it means that someone accidentally throws a lotus root to the other kid. And by someone it's actually Xue Yang, he threw the roots to Xinyue, and Xinyue tried to retaliate, but before it could be a full blown food war, Xiao Zhan put a stop on it.
And after that, they washed it down with homemade vanilla ice cream.
"God this is sooooo good!!" Yibo moaned into the ice cream.
"Well, God had nothing to do with the making of this ice cream, actually, it's all Xingchen." Xue Yang finished his and asked for a second.
"Xue Yang, behave." Xingchen patted his head.
"I'm not a kid, Xingchen" he pouts.
"I know." Xingchen gave him the extra portion.

After lunch, they all went back inside the car and left, saying goodbyes and promising to visit again, with Nie Huaisang pressed his name card to Xiao Zhan.
"Call me, ASAP, my private number is on the back."
With that, they left.

-----

Nie Huaisang possessed the skill of gathering information without anyone knowing that he did exactly that, including the intended victim. His motto was, with good info, you can do almost anything to anyone, you can even bring down a country. Even his brother, the Great Nie Mingjue, King of Security, always relied on him to provide him an accurate reading and background. They called him The Fixer just because of that. He can fix anything. Made anything disappear, or reappeared. Depends on what you ask. And it's not cheap, but it's worth every penny.
 
He received the call in the morning, and he already took care of everything for the meeting this afternoon. In neutral ground. He knew his informant was very skittish, and a slight change of plan will make him disappear for god knows how long. He's contemplating the fact that he should tell Xiao Zhan as soon as possible, or not. Will it make any difference if Xiao Zhan knew or not? But, when he thought about that again, it's the least he could do for Xiao Zhan and Yibo, after all, he always knew the whereabouts of Xiao Zhan, and he didn't even think of telling Yibo, even after his breakdown.
He poured 3 fingers of aged scotch, and downed it in one gulp. It burned his throat, but woke him up nonetheless. He slaps his own face, and gets ready to face his friends.

He walked into the ordinary house, and was embraced by his old friend, and ex-client.
"Huaisang, long time no see, we've prepared everything to your liking, and your guest is already inside."
"Han ge, I'm so grateful for your help.  By the way, I'll be waiting for Xiao Zhan, please let him in immediately? Thank you so much!" He hugged Wang Han and walked inside to find his strange informant, sitting in the corner, biting his hand nervously, and almost jumped upon seeing someone enter the premises.
"Nie Huaisang. It's you. I thought it was him..." he shuddered in fear.
"Now now, did I tell you that this is the safest place for you? Now calm down and let's have something warm to drink. You have to promise me you'll behave, okay? My friends will be here soon, and you'd better tell them what you told me yesterday."
"Yes, please, tell us", Xiao Zhan came in, with all the glorious black hair, and all black clothing, his trademark. He came alone, which surprised Nie Huaisang.
"You're alone?"
"Yibo's training, I sent Xue Yang with him." He shrugged, "and beside, I thought you wanted to talk to me alone." He sit down in one of the chair.
Huaisang nodded. 
Xiao Zhan looked at the man that was supposed to be Huaisang's informant, and he felt something tingling in his spine. The familiar feeling from a long time ago.
"You're from the Mill." He said it as a statement, not a question.
He nodded. "And I want to tell you something. About the Tracker."
"And why should I believe you?"
"Because, I'm the one who created him."
Silence.
"What did you say?" Xiao Zhan couldn't believe what he just heard. 
"I'm the one who created Tracker, and I will tell you how to bypass his program. He's after all, the same as you."
What.
"I mean, he's of your race, the same of your father, pure blooded Nulla. That's where we get the information about your power, you know." He shrugged.
Xiao Zhan can almost hear his blood boiling, but he tries to calm himself, to find out what's important first, before he unleashes Xue Yang on this...vile person.
"And what's in it for you? I'm sure you have something in mind."
"No, no, I'm just here because my conscience, and I really don't want my inventions to be used on living breathing people."
"We're aliens"
"Bah, tomayto tomahto, anyway, are you interested in saving your fellow...aliens, or not?"
Xiao Zhan contemplates for a second.
"Fine, tell me everything."
"So, here's the thing, I've created something called Soul Snatching Needles. And by inserting it into any living thing's cranium, we can control their impulses, and in some beings, can be mind controlled. Their will is weakened. So, a perfect puppet to do your bidding. It's actually for you and your super soldier offsprings, but since you got away..." he shrugged.
"How do we take it out?" 
"Easy, just knock him out, and feel his cranium, there's bound to be 2 big ass needles somewhere. Just pull it out. Slowly. And it's gonna hurt. Like a lot. You may want to restrain him."
Xiao Zhan and Nie Huaisang were speechless.
"Ah, it's time for me to go, so, I will tell you where he headed next, Huaisang, and hopefully you can catch him. Sleeping bombs will do wonder, you know." He stood up, a very different person with the nervous one Huaisang brought in just now. "Thanks for the meal, toodle loo..!" And he's gone.
Xiao Zhan looked at Nie Huaisang. "I think you just got played, Huaisang."

-----

The second race between Yibo and Xue Yang ended up in draw. The third one ended up with Yibo's winning by quarter millisecond.
"Now, that's what supposed to be, I was born a winner, you know." Yibo elbowed Xue Yang on his ribs.
"Yes yes Mr. Golden Boy, I surrendered to Thee," Xue Yang bowed melodramatically.
"Wow, I didn't know you guys are friends!"
"Yin Zheng ge! Long time no see! How are you? And he's definitely NOT my friend." Yibo huffed while Xue Yang chuckled
"Yin Zheng ge! You up for a few rounds?" Xue Yang smiled brightly at the older man.
"Shameless, were you trying to collect geges for your gege harem?" Whispered Yibo, poke Xue Yang teasingly.
"Why Yibo, are you afraid I'm gonna take your gege collection? We can share, you know..." Xue Yang whispered back, laughing.
"Shameless!" Yibo laughed again.
"It's really rare to see you bonded with a newcomer, Yibo, but I'm glad you're happy! So, tell me more, are you seeing someone?"
But before Yibo could answer that, he saw the familiar figure, covered in black, walk over to his direction, smiling. He looked at him, stars in his eyes, and smiled back even brighter.
Yin Zheng looked at the direction of Yibo's gaze, and dropped his jaw.
"Hi there, stranger" Xiao Zhan stopped closely in front of Yibo, eyes full of love. He tugged a runaway strand of Yibo's hair behind his ear, and traced his thumb to the younger's jaw. Yibo's hand caught his hand, and kissed his palm.
"Hello to you too, stranger." He pulled Xiao Zhan closer, and gave him a smoldering kiss, hot enough to give their respective manhood a stir.
"Stop it guys! We're in the middle of a public place, for christsake, have you no shame??" Xue Yang hissed at the almost indecent display of affection.
"Well, I guess that answered my question...but wow Yibo, he's so...ethereal!" Yin Zheng gawked at Xiao Zhan.
"I know right? Zhan ge, this is one of my teammates, Yin Zheng, and this is my boyfriend, Xiao Zhan."
Xiao Zhan gives Yin Zheng a firm handshake. "Hello."
"So this is why you never looked at girls, or boys, as long as I've known you, damn son, you're so lucky!"
"Yes, I am so lucky." He gazed into the older's eyes, a smile never leaving his face.
Xue Yang groaned.

-----

The call came sooner than they'd expected. Nevertheless, Xiao Zhan's been expecting it, and even set the bait for it. Himself. With a lot of protests from his boyfriend.
"What do you mean, you're going to be the bait?"
"Oh, relax, he can handle himself, baby Bobo, unlike yourself."
"Really Xue Yang? There were like 5 people with automatic rifles, and you're still holding it against me?"
"Well, I could take them. Alone."
"Right. With you being half god. No need to flaunt it everytime, you know?" Yibo's sulking now.
"Baby, you know I'm also half alien right?" Xiao Zhan ruffled Yibo's hair.
"Yes, with the ability to HEAL others, not inflicting damage or hurt others!" 
"Well, I think you're underestimating him, baby Bo, have you ever seen your boyfriend in action?" Xue Yang's now smirking.
"Xue Yang..." Xiao Zhan looked at him exasperatedly.
"What? I only tell the truth! You should see him when he..." Xue Yang stopped abruptly. "Sorry, gotta go..." then he disappeared.
"Did you just scare him? You did, didn't you?" Yibo looked at Xiao Zhan, who drank his scotch in one gulp.
"Do you trust me, baobei?" He held on his boyfriend's waist, and dragged him to his lap.
"...yea, of course." He's pouting, but he put his head on Xiao Zhan's neck. "I just don't want you to leave me, alone, widowed, with 3 kids."
Xiao Zhan chuckled, and kissed him. "We're not even married yet, and you're worried about being a widower?"
"It's just a piece of paper, and I don't need all that to call you mine, because you were already mine since the first time I kissed you, a long time ago." Yibo kissed Xiao Zhan tenderly, then more thoroughly.
"Baobei, you know I'm yours, forever, but can we continue this later? I really, really have to go now, and after that, I'm all yours until whenever you like." Xiao Zhan pulled out from Yibo's kiss, panting, regretting already that he had to go rather than play with his boyfriend.
"Fine, you always leave me to play alone, next time I want to come with you!" He's pulling away, clearly sulking.
"Next time, baobei, I promise." He kissed him, and left.

-----

Yibo's still sulking when Xue Yang came back inside.
"Oh relax! Song Lan is with him! Don't be such a baby, and sulking about your boyfriend, which I might add, can take care of himself just fine. He took care of himself long before he met you, he can take care of himself even after you, and he took care of us, took us under his wings, he doesn't really need you, you know that? But, he loved you so much, he resurrected you, hell, he's even willing to have your kids. You know that he can get pregnant right? That's why he doesn't allow anyone to have sex with him. Only you. So maybe you have to start trusting him more, like right now?"
"Xue Yang..." Xingchen, came to look for Yibo, heard all the words from Xue Yang, and gave him an exasperated look.
"What? It's the truth!"
Xingchen sighed. "Yes, it was, but it's not your story to tell, and certainly not at this time, when everything is...unclear ."
"What...what do you mean he resurrected me?" Yibo seems confused with that particular sentence.
Both Xingchen and Xue Yang looked at him incredulously.
"You mean...you don't know?"

-----

Xiao Zhan arrived at the abandoned warehouse alone. He scanned the perimeter, and after he's satisfied no one's there, he's started to hum. His hair, now floating, shining, released some kind of silver waves. And after a few minutes, he stopped and sat down on the only chair there. And waiting.
And it seems like he doesn't have to wait long, since he sensed his presence, just a few minutes after.
Seems like Huaisang's intel was right. I'll give him that.
The newcomer, standing in front of the door, waiting, seems uncertain of why his prey's not running. He wore a very creepy gas mask, tattered robes, dusty boots, and leather gloves. And he walked toward Xiao Zhan slowly.
Damn! He's got a gas mask! Now how are we supposed to subdue him?
Xiao Zhan sat still. He's still got his weapon, but he preferred not to hurt his... fellow alien, unless it's a must. He just waited while the Tracker approached him slowly.
"Did they tell you to grab me? Or kill me?" Xiao Zhan asked him. Making him stopped in his tracks, and tilted his head, as if he didn't understand the question.
"Maybe you'll be so kind as to remove your mask, so at least I can see the face of my...kidnapper? Killer?"
But this time, he didn't stop, and he grabbed Xiao Zhan's wrist.
"Hmm, I guess kidnapping then." He looked at his wrist, and turned it around in a sudden, and locked it behind his own body, rendering him unable to move.
"Song Lan, now!"
Song Lan jumped from the ceiling, and grabbed the tracker, held him in choke hold.
"Don't kill him, we need him alive." Xiao Zhan prepared the syringe with anesthesia, and jabbed his neck with it. "Hmm, it's surprisingly easy."
"We'd better get out of here fast, I've got bad feelings about this." Song Lan carried the tracker in fireman carry, and brought him to the car. And they left soon after.

-----

They went straight to the room they've prepared for the extraction of the Soul Snatching Needles. Xiao Zhan checked the pulse, and removed the mask. The man behind the mask was pale, with black veins on his neck. And when he checked the pupil, it's pure black. He then restrained the man, to prevent the sudden movement.
"Song Lan, hold him. I will try to find the needles."
Song Lan nodded and put extra pressure on the man's hand and leg.
Xiao Zhan then started to feel the cranium for foreign objects, and not a minute later he found it, embedded deep in the cranial base. He started to pull, and when he felt no resistance or movement from the man, he continued slowly, and steadily, until it all came out. All 15cm of it.
"This...been inside him?" Xue Yang appeared and grabbed the thick needles. "This is sick. The humans are sick. I'm so done with humanity!" Xue Yang threw the needles back to the table, and huffed. Clearly upset.
"I know you hate humans, but not all of them are like that, you know?" Xiao Zhan washed his hands from the blood. "Will you keep watch of him? Let me know if he's waking up? Thanks." He wiped his hand on the small hand towel.
"By the way, Xiao Zhan, I'm sorry, I'm truly truly sorry, please don't be mad at me?" Xue Yang looked at him with worry in his eyes.
"And why would I be mad at you? Did you do something?"
"...you might want to talk to your boyfriend. Again, I'm sorry, I didn't know that you haven't told him about...you know.." he's fidgeting with his hand now.
Xiao Zhan looked at him, sighed, and patted his head. "It's not your fault, I should've told him first thing. Don't worry, Xue Yang, I know you mean well. Now go, and watch him, report to me if anything happens. And I mean anything. Got it?"
"Okay." He looked relieved.

He walked to the children's bedroom, when he encountered Xingchen on the way.
"He's inside with the kids." Xingchen told him
"How's he? Xue Yang told me what he did."
"Well, for a human, I'd say he'd take that news pretty well. But you still need to talk to him."
Xiao Zhan nods. "I should've done that the first time I met him. Was he...upset? Angry?"
"Talk to him." Xingchen squeezed his hand, and left.
He takes a deep breath, and opens the door to the nursery. There he found 4 kids, sprawled on the floor, asleep, with Yibo in the middle, the twins curled up against him, and Fei's head in his leg. They made a very beautiful picture, the one that Xiao Zhan always wished to have. A home. A family.
He smiled, and closed the door. The talk can wait. He needs to use the shower anyway.

-----

He yelped when he got out of shower, because he saw Yibo sitting on their bed. 
"You scared me! I thought you were sleeping with the kids?" 
"Mm...I heard you, and I want to talk to you." Yibo looked at him, hard. "So, a little birdie told me that I was supposed to be dead 5 years ago? Can you elaborate?"
Xiao Zhan sighed, and sat beside Yibo, holding his hands. "Baobei, I can explain." He kissed Yibo's palm. "Did you remember the night when you went with Yin Zheng and your teammate, and Xichen? To have a drink before your first pro race?" Yibo nodded. "You left me a voicemail, said that you'll be home at 11. And I opened it at 11.45 but you're still not home yet, and after that, Xichen left a voicemail, saying that you...had an accident. A fatal one. Your skull was crushed, and there's blood everywhere. I told Xichen to bring you to my lab, the one in the basement. He refused at first, said he was gonna get you to hospital,  but I insisted. I knew I could save you."
"Even when you knew that your own life was gonna be in danger when you used your power?" Yibo's breath hitched, and his eyes glistened.
"Baobei, there's nothing more important for me in this whole world, more than you. I'd rather die than let you die, knowing that I could save you. I will do it all again in a heartbeat. Whatever it takes." He touched his forehead to his boyfriend. "The only regret I have was that I had to leave, I had to, so that they couldn't find you. But after 5 years, I can mask our scents, that's why I risked getting back to you, I missed you every single day. But who knows that they had you kidnapped under my nose...anyway, I decided that you'll be safer here, with me, rather than out there alone." He hugged him tightly, and he can feel the wetness of the other's in his neck.
"Why, Zhan ge? Was I worth that much sacrifice? I love you so much, but you deserved better than me. And why did you decide to have my children? I know you've never been with anyone before, that birdie blabbed everything. What makes me so special?"
"Ah, baobei, if only you knew. Yes you're worth it. Because you makes me feel...that I'm home." He kissed the crown of Yibo's hair. "You are so worth it, don't you dare think otherwise. You made me happy, you made me...be myself. Well, you could be a gremlin sometimes, but I love all about you." He looked at Yibo's eyes, which darkened with lust now. "I want to spend my lifetime with you. And the kids."
"And I want to spend my lifetime with you. But next time please don't keep things for me. I'm trying to understand more about you, I want to know more about you. Wait, did we have this conversation before? I vaguely remember this...anyway, now you make me horny, you have to take responsibility now."
And at this time, Xiao Zhan's really grateful for his boyfriend's short attention span, just like a beagle, and he'll be glad to provide much needed service.
 
He took his time to kiss Yibo thoroughly, from top to bottom, while Yibo gasped and groaned frantically.
"Ge…" 
"Relax, baobei, I'm going to take care of you tonight." He flipped Yibo down, and shed all of their clothes off, while his finger started to caress Yibo's ass. He took his time to worship the beautiful mound of flesh, before he sunk his teeth in one of them, making Yibo yelped.
"Ah...ge, I need you inside…" 
He moved his hips to chase Xiao Zhan's mouth, until the latter's hand stopped him.
"Patience, Yibo."
Then he smacked Yibo's bottom, making him growl like a feral animal.
He then poured the lube and warmed it before he pushed one digit into the hole, making Yibo arched his back and moaning out loud.
"Only one finger and you're already this loud, gouzaizai?" Xiao Zhan entered the second one, while he kissed his spine from top to bottom, slowly sucking it, leaving blooming marks on his porcelain skin. 
His other hand searched for Yibo's leaking cock, and pumped it fast, before entering the third finger.
Yibo threw his head back and continued making lewd sounds and cursing in foreign language which Xiao Zhan recognized as Korean. 
"Are you ready, baobei?" 
Xiao Zhan already became very aroused seeing the younger looked so debauched, so when he nodded he pulled his fingers off, lining his hard cock and pushed it inside in one smooth movement.
They moved together, slowly at first, needing to feel the frictions, the ache, to keep them grounded, to make them feel .  But it didn't take long to build the need. They moved frantically, chasing their high until they reached it together, whispering their undying love to each other, before they collapsed in bed with their limbs tangled everywhere.

They stayed in that position for a while, blissed out.
"You know, makeup sex was the best sex." Yibo grinned and reached for Xiao Zhan's waist.
"Did we even fight just now?"
"I'm not sure, you want to replay?"
But before he could answer, there's a knock on his door, and Xue Yang's voice from the other side.
"He's awake."

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"Do you know where you are right now?" Xiao Zhan sits next to the man, who just blinks, and seems confused.
"...no? Who are you guys? Why am I here?" He seems pretty disoriented.
"All you need to know is you're safe. But, can you tell us what's your name?"
"...I..I.." suddenly he sat upright, looked at Xiao Zhan, and recited his credential. "Name : QiongLin; Species : Nulla; Subspecies : Guardian; I am here to protect and serve my King, and the failure to do so will result in my death." Then he proceeds to kneel in front of Xiao Zhan. "My King. I've been looking all over for you."
What?
Xiao Zhan blinked. "Say that again?"
"My King. The Holy King of Nulla. The Descendant of the Royal Highness King Xiao Yue. The Heir to the Nulla Throne."
Everyone was speechless by the unexpected piece of information from the Tracker.

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"This... was a very unexpected development." Yibo, still in awe about what's just unfurled right before his eyes. 
"No shit, Sherlock." Xue Yang rolled his eyes.
"I think we should torture him to get the truth out, who knows if he's telling the truth or just trying to daze us with his...misinformation."
"Song Lan, your demon's showing, and no, we are not torturing anyone, please, Xiao Zhan, what's on your mind?" Xingchen is trying to be the reasonable one as he always was.
"Does anyone have the power of mind reading? No? Well, I second Song Lan, we should torture him until he's nothing but a blubbering mess, at least he will tell us the truth then."
"Xue Yang..." Xiao Zhan let out an exasperated sigh, as usual when he had to deal with this crazy lot. "No one's torturing anyone, please, we're far more civilized than our predecessors. Now, I'm just going to talk to him, see if I can find out if he's lying or not. You guys stay here, NO KILLING please." He glared at Song Lan and Xue Yang.
"You're no fun, not like when we're back at..." he shut up at the glare Xiao Zhan sent him. "Fine..fine!! I'll be on my best behaviour, you can even tell your puppy to chaperon me." He pouted.
"Good boy, Yangyang." Yibo patted Xue Yang's head, only to be slapped away. "Ooh, Zhan ge, while we're on this subject, I think, the easiest way to know if he's telling the truth was probably by just asking him what's your power and how to unleash it, what do you reckon?"
"THAT, was actually a great idea, two birds with one stone, right? So we should cancel our plan to drop him off the cliff, then, babybo?"
"Shhh!! Xue Yang! Shut your big mouth!!" Yibo covered the other's mouth with his hand in panic.
"It's fine, I should know that the two of you planned something behind my back all this time...you're not exactly a closed book, you know." He ruffled both of their hair fondly. 

Xiao Zhan walked back to the makeshift confinement, where they held their so-called prisoner. He sat on the chair beside the bedside.
"So, QiongLin..."
"Your Highness, you may call me Ning. It's my Guardian name. Only to be used by the King." He bowed his head deeply.
"Okay then, Ning, now please tell me, what's our power?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, as the ruler of our kingdom, the King had the power of invisibility, and healing others, it's exclusive for all Nulla species, but the Guardian. Guardian was the subspecies of Nulla, whose only job was to protect the King with his life." He still bowed his head. "But, there's one more special power than only the King has."
"Oh? Please elaborate." Xiao Zhan leaned closer.
"The King also had the power of 'Absorb'. It is a very deadly power by itself. When in great danger, or whenever he chose to do so, The King could absorb any living being into himself. Then he would gain their skills and soul."

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"That was rather unexpected, you possessed such an... unexpected abilities, well, not as useful as flight or super strength, or laser eyes..." Yibo kinda looked disappointed.
"Did you just say what I think you're saying? Superman? Really? Boy, you're more whipped than I thought you were." Xue Yang scoffed, but he's very interested. "Ask him how you do the absorb thing, ge, I think it will be very useful."
Xiao Zhan looked like he was in deep thought, pondering over what to do with this overwhelming info, and turned to Xingchen. "What do you think, Xingchen?"
Xingchen took a while to answer carefully. "I think you should go with your gut. You've survived this long without that ability, which might say something about your own self control. But in a way, I can see that it's somehow your legacy, and I believe that you, as the most level-headed man I've ever known, alien or not, will not use it haphazardly. So, yeah, if it's me, I will learn about it, at least to avert future mishap, and to gain a better control of it yourself. So you're not mistakenly absorbing Yibo in the throes of passion?"
"Hey!" Yibo threw a pillow to Xingchen, followed by his laugh.
Xiao Zhan chuckled at the last sentence from Xingchen. "Well, so far I managed to NOT absorb him, but you're right, who knows what will happen if I don't learn to control my own ability." He kissed Yibo. "Besides, I still want to be with my boyfriend, not absorbing him into my body! Who knows what kind of weird skills that I will get from him!"

"Good, because you don't need any particular skill to learn about it, you just...think. That's the beauty of being a Nulla King. Basically your most powerful ability is your mind."
"How did you get out of your confinement?" Xiao Zhan asked Ning, who appeared to have escaped from his makeshift cell.
"It is our ability as a Guardian, Your Highness, to be able to protect you, we have to be resilient." He bowed his head to Xiao Zhan, then to Yibo, who was still in Xiao Zhan's arms. "Greetings, Consort Yibo, I, Ning, will also protect you in my life."
Silence falls. Then the laughter erupted. Specifically from Xue Yang.
"My god!!! You're a fucking consort now babybo!!! How appropriate!!!" He's rolling on the floor laughing out loud, while the others tried to hide their smile.
"The fuck, Ning! I'm not a fucking consort!!" Yibo's face now alarmingly red, and Xiao Zhan did nothing to correct Ning, in fact he's quite amused with all the farce.
Ning was bewildered. "But, are you or are you not the spouse of the King? I could smell his scent all over you. And it is common on our planet to have male consorts, as we did not have any predicament over whichever gender we chose to be our soulmate." He tilted his head, as if confused about all the ruckus about nothing.
"No, it's not that, but the word consort is very...very...god help me, ge!! Stop smiling!" Yibo smacked the smiling Xiao Zhan.
"It's rare to see you're being dumbfounded by such thing, baobei,"
"Anyway, this is now time to call for celebration! Get the good alcohol out, Xingchen! We're going to teach Ning the joy of getting drunk out of his ass!!!" 
Xiao Zhan groaned and facepalmed himself.

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"I could see you take this all rather well, Zhan ge." Yibo's purring in Xiao Zhan's ear, away from the party goers.
"Really? You couldn't feel the turmoil inside my gut? Such a bad consort, I think I really need to find me another concubine." 
Yibo slapped his arms in retaliation.
"I will not allow you to take anyone, you're mine, and only mine." He kissed Xiao Zhan, slowly, but gradually become more demanding. "Now, I got to claim my right as a consort, hmmm, I always wonder how it feels to fuck a King, an alien King nonetheless. You know what? I think I will start my new career as a sci fi writer, I can see the title right away 'The Alien King's Consort's Tell All: How I Spend My Nights on Alien King's Bed' , bet that will sell...mmpff" his mouth's getting shut by a very demanding kiss.
"Shut up, and fuck me baobei"
"Gladly, My King"
He turned their position around and started to get rid of their clothes. Xiao Zhan hummed in pleasure, knowing the familiar move, yet he couldn't seem to get tired of it. In fact, it made him more aroused. Yibo didn't waste time and started to prep with his two fingers at once, knowing that Xiao Zhan could take it. 
Xiao Zhan mewled, and arched his back closer to the younger, unconsciously moved against the fingers, faster and faster, until Yibo stopped him.
"Easy, baobei, not so fast, I want to enjoy tearing you apart until you forget your own name… " he started to kiss Xiao Zhan with tongue, while his other hand pinched his nipples. 
"So, since you're an alien, I remembered the last night we made love, was it your self-lubrication mode?" He whispered in the older's ear, fingers moving in and out in squelching sounds.
"Yes… ah… that's it, so good baobei… " Xiao Zhan moaned lewdly, while his hips pumping Yibo's fingers once again.
"That's fascinating, I might need to research more of that…" Yibo pulled his fingers, and stroked his cock instead, preparing to put it inside of his soulmate, his lover. "Are you going to get pregnant again, Ge?" He paused before inserting it fully.
"...no. Last time I wanted at least a part of you so bad, I needed it… before I left… so I did it." A tear escaped from his eyes, making his long lashes glistened under the light.
So beautiful…
Yibo caressed the face of the man he loves most in the whole wide world, and thought he lost once. But fate has been kind to them.
"Ge, next time, we will talk. No more running away again. I want to be by your side, forever."
"No more running away, baobei… forever." 
"I love you…" Yibo kissed him softly, before finally entering him in one swift move.
"Ah… I love you too, baobei… forever"
They moved together languidly at first, until the passion took over. They frantically moved against each other, murmuring love words and promises, until they came… together.